Watch 4-star OL make Dabo Swinney’s day by committing to Clemson football
Is there a hotter coach in the country right now than Dabo Swinney? The legendary Clemson football coach has not only fresh off another playoff berth, but his Tigers are red-hot on the recruiting trail.
Clemson was ranked somewhere in the 30s earlier this week for its 2026 recruiting class, but that has changed drastically over the course of one weekend. That’s right, Clemson only needed a few days to go from mid-30s all the way up to No. 3 in the country thanks to a handful of commitments over the weekend which concluded with a pledge from four-star offensive tackle Grant Wise.
Wise ended up choosing Clemson over Texas A&M, Alabama, and LSU, among about three-dozen other offers, and he did so right in front of Dabo on a visit.
The reaction by Swinney was priceless, pumping his fist and giving his newest commit a handshake and a big hug. The commitment clearly made his day and it was a cool moment to cap off one of the best recruiting weekends in quite some time.
(Tweet could not be included since Twitter is down, but here’s the link: Dabo pumped about commit).
Wise was holding something in his hand and he said, “Something told me to grab this from my house before I came up here and I think it’s because I want to be a Clemson Tiger.”
That statement was met with a burst of excitement from Dabo and the rest of the guys in the room as they celebrated their fifth commitment of the weekend, this time from the No. 208 overall recruit and 14th-best interior offensive lineman, per the composite.
Wise joins Chancellor Barclay, Connor Salmin, Naeem Burroughs, and Adam Guthrie who all committed over the weekend. He is now the sixth-highest-rated commit in Clemson’s 2026 class which holds 11 players.
Dabo is fired up and so is this fanbase.
